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Give 14ght and the People Willi Fina Thew Uwn Way

UMT Will Have Its Day

those who believe that universal military training is the American way to remain defensively strong—and thus maintain world peace—it is heartening news that the fight for that legislation will continue in the next Congress. Certainly, there is no reason to give up when the chances of getting UMT appear brighter than at any time since war’s end. . The brush-off treatment the legislation received at the hands of a few House leaders in the last Congress represented neither the. will of the people nor the two

major parties. The men who led the anti-UMT fight—and forced the nation to accept conscription instead — spoke only for

themselves and the vocal minorities who control them. Nomination of Govs. Dewey and Warren by the Republicans gives that party two standard-bearers who are committed to universal military training. Gow Dewey urged the last Congress to enact it. Gov. Warren journeyed across the country to speak for universal military training because, as a father, he felt he could not ignore his responsibilities. _ Regardless of the outcome of the election, we can expect to have a man in the White House who believes whole-heartedly that defense of the nation ig the common responsibility of all its male citizens. He will be in position to insist that Congress provide a sane, wholesome training plan fof its young men.

Palestine Truce

"THERE is only one week left in tie Palestine truce. Meanwhile, there is no sign that the United Nations mediator, Count Bernadotte, is getting the Arabs and Jews to agree on a settlement. Indeed Arab league officials in Cairo say they already have rejected the mediator’s proposals. And press reports from Palestine describe the Jews as preparing to resume fighting. « Such being the situation, the next move of the United Nations appears obvious. The truce should be extended. Of course the extremists on both sides will object to that. Even the moderates, under provocative pressure of the hotheads, may be tempted to talk belligerently. But no amount of ranting ‘should be allowed to swerve the United Nations in insisting that the armistice be continued. Actually few, if any, informed persons ever expected that the most difficult of all international disputes could settled within four weeks. : There was hope, however, that this cooling-off period would enable responsible authorities on both sides to see

the wisdom of renewing the truce long enough to permit

fe ea ® mo» UNTIL Jews. and Arabs have met with the mediator around a corhmon table and together seriously examined the proposals offered, they have not fulfilled their responsi-

bilities for keeping the peace. . This has not yet been done.

The Bernadotte “proposals,” which Arab leaders in Cairo so precipitately and prematurely have rejected, were merely suggestions, They were not a take-it-or-leave-it propositions ; _~“The mediator advanced certain possibilities for discussion and invited counter-suggestions, as we understand it. And this, surely, is the fair and productive method of exploration—the necessary preliminary to more precise negotiations, Otherwise efforts for a settlement may collapse before they begin. . . That is the point now. More time is neded. Most of the past three weeks has been spent in working out an organization for truce observance and enforcement. Only now is Count Bernadotte free to turn to the problem of a permanent settlement. Both ‘sides can well afford to extend the cease-fire order, which is saving them lives and destruction.

: Both Sides Are Right

FTER two years of struggle the United Nations has got exactly nowhere searching for a basis for controlling the atomic bomb. The problem now goes to the General

Assembly, where there is no veto and no power to take effec-

tive action. Russia won't do anything unless we first destroy all bombs. Then. she will consent to a weak, impotent international inspection system that could not possibly assure against the building of other bombs. It seems obvious that Moscow, which hopes to have a bomb soon, is much less afraid of our breaking a gentleman's agreement than we are that she would ignore it. Judging from past actions, both nations are right— Russia in assuming we would keep whatever pledge we made, and we in doubting that Russia would do the same.

He's Really on the Job

T IS NOT often that a Mayor slips into the shoes of the police chief when the latter is away. But it did happen in Beech Grove. And we take off our hats to a Mayor who can and will do anything required of any officer of his administration. : Mayor Richard Byland received a complaint about a suspicious character prowling through doctors’ cars at St. Francis Hospital. The police chief was out, so the Mayor went to the scene, arrested the suspect after a struggle and took him to jail, later learning that he was an escaped narcotic addict. . We like that kind of Mayor, and we suspect the citizens of Beech Grove like him, too.

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‘linger the glories of the Fourths of “the good

And lots of the wearisome three-sixty-three,

‘With a year to last but thirty days, :

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

OLD-FASHIONED FOURTH |

AN OLD-TIMER'S taviriie ier Sport is ‘harking back to “the good © ys. EE the fond memories of the early 1900s are the glorious Fourth of July celebrations Displays of fireworks were not regulated by law in those days, or confined to city parks, Butler "Bowls and county fair grounds. Most every poy and girl possessed his or her rounds of concussion concocting creations, and the Fourth of July lasted from about June 20 till the day or so following the great celebration. True it is that there were fewer arms and fingers and eyes in those sanguine days, but to the skillful and the cautious, the Fourth of July was the focal point of interest in any child’s mind, for noise is indigenous to his nature. ! Once, when I approached my father for Fourth of July funds, a subtle gleam came into his eyes. He saw a rare opportunity to bind work, which I did not like, and the noiz} webration into a working union. “Son,” said he, “we will adjourn to the garden.” On reaching that vast expanse of family provender and competing weeds my father prosed: “1 will give you 25 cents if you will clear that section of weeds” and he indicated a space about six feet square. “With the amount you earn you may buy fireworks.” ” » ~

VISIONS of penny poppers, sparklers and perhaps one 5-cent ‘“thunder-maker” danced across my thinking. But when father returned from his carpentering the following evening he found that I had made an almost entirely starved attempt at clearing the patch. In oné corner as many as six little weeds lay dying. The rest of them, in full possession of their powers, leered at him from their state of security. , I never did pull those weeds, and, of course, I never did get'my quarter, but I was a member, ex officio, of the “ways and means committee” of boydom. There were old bottles, bits of scrap-iron and sacks of rags that could be collected and gold to the junkman . . . somehow or other, without suffering the rigors of parental-planned work, I always managed to gain a few bits of the noisy stuff a bqy adored in those ‘good old days.” JS ” J . IN LATER years I “passed” a certain morning newspaper in my town. The morning papers for that Greenfield route were delivered to the county seat by a fast Pennsylvania train that roared through the town at 4 a. m. And annually we added to that®oar by lining the tracks from the railroad station to State 8t. with dynamite caps. ; Bro - - - ther! Greenfield's four thousand five hundred and fifty sleepers, plus the Pullman snoozers on the train, were unroariously advised that the Fourth of July was in full “boom”! It is better, much better, I agree, that the glorious Fourth be celebrated safely and sanely, as we do it today. Though a law has taken away the thrills of firecrackers that most every youngster fired in “the good old days,” we now have the satisfaction of seeing our boys and girls going through life unmaimed. °* The amateur and careless pyrotechnists have been replaced by the experts, and the Sahara Grotto’s display at the Butler Bowl is commendable. On July 5, 40 thousand people will attend this annual exhibition, and their slogan 18, “13 years without an accident”! ” » ”

BUT IN the memory of us oldsters there

old days.”

Christmas day and the Fourth of July Are the two best days of the year,

I wish they would never appear. They get no welcome from boys and girls, Like Christmas and the Fourth of July, To answer why they have to come I'll leave for the grown-ups to try.

If I could have some words to say, When the calendar men convene, I'd ask for a lot of those two days ' With some birthdays in between— A Christmas day, and a week for rest From that event, and I Would be ready then for three birthdays, And the glorious Fourth of July.

I'd like to arrange the years like that— . Just holidays and rest,

Or thirty-one at best; With Christmas time coming twice each year And Fourth of July ‘bout three, For the Fourth of July is a better day . Than Christmas day to me.

At Christmas time, some presents I get Are “useful” and “just what I need,” And make me as happy as a fish would be With a bucket of chicken feed! But the things, on the Fourth, that Dad gets for me Are “useful” in blasting the sky— I bettcha that Mars is glad each year There's only one Fourth of July!

—B. R. P. >

LJ A CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

After many years uv experience, Snifter Myers sez he kin be quoted, “It's the MOURNIN’ after the night before.” Snifter orter know.

Willie Shuggs hez bin tellin’ his troubles to ever’ budy. “I never wuz one fer thet silent sufferin’,” sez Willie, “Shucks, I like ter enjoy myself.”

The way things hev got stirred up down ter Washington it sorter looks like a crank kin start sumpthin’ sides an automobile. —CATFISH PETE. SSB

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“PHILADELPHIA—GOP Plans Long White House Stay.”)

In this housing shortage dire Too much noise is never wise, From good people who aspire To a roof beneath the skies.

The Republicans might harken; Premature loud speaking cease; For no White House door they'll darken, Till the voters grant that lease!

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DEAR BOSS: :

Hoosier Republican Congressmeh, who were howling “down with the draft,” are now howling because the Army hasn't selected Camp Atterbury in Indiana to train the draftees. Spearheading this squawk are Reps. Gerald W. Landis and Earl Wilson, who, like all other

Indiana Congressmen except Majority Leader

Halleck, voted against the draft. The two Senators from the state were out in Indiana frying tq make Sen. William E, Jenner the Governor when the draft law passed the upper house. But Sen. Homer E. Capehart, who went to the Republican state convention to back his Junior colleague and came back defeated, had arranged a pair putting him on record as for it. Sen. Jenner was too busy trying to grab the gubernatorial nomination to bother abo being paired for or against the draft. 3? The final report on the compromise draf bill was passed by a voice vote in the Senate during the hectic last hours of the final session. When asked how he had voted, Sen. Jenner sald: “Voice votes are never recorded.” y

. : Si:==t ‘We Was Robbed’ BUT HE has been the outstanding isolatiénist in the most isolationist delegation ‘in the Congress—the GOP from Indiana—which hurt Halleck no end when he went after the vice presidency on the Dewey ticket. The latter was free from this label by his own record, but got lumped in the general voting of his Hoosier

DEAR BOSS + + « By Daniel M. Kidney -

Dan’s Dope on ‘We Was Robbed’

at Atterbury

colleagues and that helped halt his boom. Nevertheless both Senators’ offices and those of Landis and Wilsen are now shouting “we was robbed” because Secretary of Army Kenneth C. Royall announced reactivation of Camp Breckenridge, Ky., across from Evansville, rather than Camp Atterbury. They claim “political favoritism” and base it on the charge that Kentucky already had Army posts at Campbell, Knox and Thomas. The Kentuckians also voted for having an Army.

Maybe Royall Remembers

~ SECRETARY ROYAL previously had obliged Indiana by keeping historic Ft. Harrison at Indianapolis, after it had been officially ordered abandoned. He has no present plans for Camp Atterbury, except to continue it in its stand-by status, his office said. When delegations from Columbus, Franklin and other towns in the Atterbury area came here last winter to argue for reactivation of the camp, they were told plainly of the Army plan to make it one of the Army's key camps in a program of Universal Military Training. But the Congress turned down UMT and only voted the last-minute draft. : And the Hoosiers in the House, .with the sole exception of Halleck, who voted for the draft, were not for either one. Maybe Secretary Royall remembers that.

—DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Washington Correspondent.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Tito Purge May Aid

‘Let's Dedicate Selves on Fourth To Freedom’

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

By Daniel M. Kidney

GOV. DEWEY might steal a line from President Truman and. looking back on the GOP convention, say “old Joe isn’t such a bad fel-

low.” Meaning Joe Grundy-—not Joe Stalin. Bn.» we Headline: “GOP Expected to Hustle for |

Border’ States.” With housing the way it is, it | might be wiser to go after the “boarder” vote in all the states. * sn { According to New York dispatches the Gov. | Warrens danced in the “Cafe Rouge Room.” | Maybe trying to cut into the Wallace vote, ® 8&8 =» i The first thing a new draft board member should learn is leave any “Good Neighbor { Policy” in the hands of the State Department. | ® » » { Genuine “disunity” could turn Communists into democrats,

! even British or American.

Greek Fight on Reds

WASHINGTON, July 3—The squabble between Tito and Stalin should benefit Greece in her struggle against the Reds algng the Albanian, Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders. Though the Communist war against Greece—like Communist activities everywhere—is directed from Moscow, Yugoslavia is the principal advance post and guerrilla training ground. The United Nations factfinding commission did not report that it actually had witnessed the training of guerrillas in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania. But members heard ample evidence of it. Moreover, the fact-finders were refused entry into those countries.

stande, but when it comes to . execution, Yugoslavs and Russians share the job. Insofar as possible, Greek officials command in the field. If Yugoslavia manages to maintain its declared ‘‘independence,” and refuses to cooperate save on a basis of “national equality” along the lines of Tito’s reply to the

AT LEAST three army divisions are reported in camps

not far from the Greek fron- Cominform, Moscow's war tier. These are broken down in- against Greece might come a to “brigades” after the fashion cropper.

At least it ought to improve

of the Communists in Spain. Greece's chances.

Three of .these brigades are .

THE FOURTH of July is just another holiday to most of us. Yet it has a special significance this year. : There's not much more liberty in the world than existed when our forefathers wrote

their famous Declaration of.

Independence.

Like them, we must dedicate ourselves to the cause of individual freedom—and that takes the same kind of courage they had. ” » » YOU AND I, who occupy a small niche in the nation, may feel helpless. In our hearts we know better. How often -do we remind ourselves that where there is no individual responsibility there ¢an be no genuine freedom?

now said to be in Yugoslavia, three in Albania and at least one in Bulgaria. The recruiting, handling and training of these irregulars follow the Spanish civil war pattern in which Tito was a prominent figure. At the top are the Russians, specially assigned by Moscow. Under them Yugoslavs hold first place. Next come a sprinkling of Bulgarians, Greeks, Spaniards, Albanians and others. Yugoslavia is also the guerrilla induction center. All recruits are first sent to a depot said to be about 50 miles south of Belgrade. »

2 2 THERE they are “internationalized.” ~ Their passports

and other papers are taken up and they are given new identities including new names. From there they are sent on to the various training, equipment and indoctrination camps nearer the front in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania. . n ” n ‘ THEIR weapons are mostly German or, where possible,

In case of capture, possession of Russian arms would be a give-away. Thus Russia and Yugoslavia together form the mainspring of the Communist war against Greeoe, according to British, American and United Nations sources. i Their collaboration is es- | sential to any sustained offensive. » arn 8 THE directives may come from Moscow, in the first in-

COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE. IND. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“] must apologize! In the two weeks you've been’ visiting us we've gotten so used to your being around that | forgot | to call you for dinner!” *

i Te ak “One world—a Red wort all that is needed to hay,

from the ) Communist seeks and

It is imperative that Germany be officially that the first “incident” will efficiently dealt with. And how efficient it can be Russia has good Tesson lo be aware. ®

Urges Jobs for Blind, Crippled

By Fredric O. Rusher, 2020 N. New Jersey st.

Once a year there is Poppy @&y to he} iisabled war veterans. Also annual drives fo;

the Red Cross, T. B, Community Fund and ;

Infantile Paralysis. It is true that these cases are. our eyes, every day in the week, bu exist. . or pe On downtown streets in Indianapolis, most: every day, you will see blind persons playing and singing and crippled persons selling pencils, These people depend on the generosity of the public. . It seems to me that some kind of fund could be contributed and a business could be set up for the blind to manufacture essential, iftems—to be sold at a reasonable profit. > Who wouldn't rather buy an item of mer chandise made by these people, than to toss a dime into a cup. They wouldn't be on the-

streets at the mercy of the general public,’ Their minds and arms would be useful in con-~

structing things for commercial use. Why not give them a regular pay-day dnd let ‘them be independent. Besides, after their. business was organized, it would no longer be" a charitable mstitien, ‘ i :

Raps Convention Clowning ; By 8. M. 8, Greencastle » : We have come a long way since the first) meetings of our founding fathers and not allv in the right direction by any means. * A egpectacle like the Republican conven: tion makes one wonder if they are proud to. be an American. 2 Instead of the circus atmosphere and pagani; approach, the delegates to a political conven-# tion need to get down on their knees and prays for guidance to find out where to go from here and who can best lead us out of the mess the world is in today. It would seem as if it was no time for clowning but a time i for deep and serious thinking. Can our international neighbors think we are in earnest wie tactics & this kind?

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White House Door Prizes? ~~ § By Bob Kersher, City . a’ Sudden thought—do you think Republican presidential candidate Dewey will offer door prizes to each 100th person to visit him at the White House, if and when? ; Line forms to oe Jant. please.

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Change in Theme Song

_By A. T. 8, Lebanon

The Republican Party has come of age in the nomination of a more liberal candidate for , President. : The theme “I'm looking over a four-leaf clover” has now been changed to “There's 3 rainbow ‘round my shoulder.” Long live the two-party system in our Amer ica! I'm a staunch Democrat. i

IN WASHINGTON— 3 Sea Unions Test! Taft-Hartley Law

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Taft-Hartley labor law is headed for its biggest test case yet in the current fight between seven maritime

unions and the West Coast, Great Lakes, At-

lantic and Gulf Coast ship operators. Principal issue is the hiring hall—the place where seamen and longshoremen go to get jobs. Under labor practices now firmly established, only union members can get jobs in hiring halls. because the maritime unions have all had “closed shop” contracts, and they have "been ’ running the halls. ) But the Taft-Hartley act outlaws the closed shop and says it’s an unfair labor practice for a! an employer to discriminate against union mem-

bers or non-members. So the employers now say they can't sign renewals of their- contracts which expired on June 15—continuing the hiring halls as they, have operated in the past—without breaking; the law. 3 2 » ” %

FIVE CIO unions, one AFL and one inde pendent maintain that this stand by the em* ployers is a concerted effort to do two things First to do away with the hiring hall. Second to bust the closed shop at sea and along the waterfront, returning to “open shop” hiring: of men without regard to union membership. Employer ship operators and shipping agents are far from united on what their future policies . should be, but in general they deny both these . charges. 2 With regard to the first point, most employ-3 ers say they want to keep the hiring halls, but & they want them run differently, to comply with? the law. : : On the East Coast, hiring halls are novw_ maintained by the unions. On the West Coast” hiring halls are jointly run by unions and em-= ployers. The “dispatchers” who assign thé men walting their turns for jobs in the hiring halls are now all union men. Most employers say that in the future they; must maintain the hiring halls just as employ: ment offices are run in other industries, and that the dispatchers should be neutral—which to them means non-union men. { r ” » ! ON. THE second point, some employers say they are willing to make a “union shop” con” tract with the maritime unions. ‘The position of employers in not wanting t0 sign new contracts that vielate the Taft-Hartley law can be appreciated. SF ig The reluctance of unions to sign contracts that lead to their destruction is also under standable. i : In this situation, it seems ‘oniy fair to say’ that the Taft-Hartley law is certainly not help: ing labor and managément vesch agreements to renew working conditions that have operated satisfactorily in the past and have become es tablished practices. :

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